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Daalder / 30 Stuiver Piedfort of double weight
| Issuer | Province of Gelderland (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1693 |
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| Weight | 30.38 g |
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| Obverse lettering | IN DEO ॱ SPES ॱ NOSTRA : 1693 ॱ (Translation: Our Hope Is In God) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Piedforts from the Dutch provincial mints were rarely struck for circulation — these double-weight pieces served as presentation items, die trials, or gifts to officials and foreign dignitaries, and Gelderland's output of them was never large. By 1693, the province's mint at Harderwijk was operating under the monetary unification pressures of the States-General, which had been pushing since the 1670s to standardize coinage across the seven provinces. A piedfort of this type would likely have been produced in very small numbers, possibly to order.
The Voogt reference places this firmly within the documented Gelderland piedfort sequence, but surviving examples remain genuinely scarce in any condition.